365 2014 Day 38 Heirloom Carrots

Here I go, playing with my food again. Today was a sick day, so I stayed in my flannel pi’s and practiced my food photography with these lovely heirloom carrots. I found them at my local organic market yesterday and made magical plans in my mind immediately. Those plans were not as easy to carry out as I thought, however. I have said it before and I will say it again, food photography is difficult for me. It is truly an art. All those gorgeous photographs you see in magazines like Kinfolk were carefully planned and executed by talented and skilled someone.

But for me, on a sick day? I just played with my food and that’s okay. This is a 365, where I capture as best I can the beauty I find in each day. Today it was carrots.

I do want to be excellent in what I do though, so I just practice practice until I get the shots the way I want them.

Today it kinda went like this:

1. Place carrots on brand new cutting board I bought just for this. Hate it. (Fuss at myself for buying a new cutting board)

2. Get down another cutting board.  Arrange carrots and the light is all wrong.

3. Move carrots and cutting board to the back porch with dogs following me.

4. Shiver and work faster. (Yes I am sick working outside with carrots in my pajamas)

5. Text my friend Holly (the food photographer) a picture of them, ” What am I doing wrong?”

6. Rinse and repeat with bowls and other accessories.

And so on. This goes on for an hour. I am playing with carrots for an hour. But I love it. I finally find my angles, my light. I finally feel like I can show someone else my photos and they will see how truly beautiful these carrots are. I can see their color and their textures just right in the frames. They are beautiful. Just as gorgeous as they were when I saw them in the market and my heart jumped a bit. I guess it sounds a little crazy to say these things about carrots, but look at them! The rich colors! Have you ever seen a purple carrot? The variety and textures! I swoon.

Just like I did over the cabbage in the grocery store. I guess that’s okay.

In the morning these lovely carrots will get in my belly via my new juicer to help me get over this cold.

Happy Saturday. 🙂

Genesis 1:31 ~”God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good!”